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5 IoT Careers Every Techie Should Know About

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  • The Internet of Things is advancing towards making devices smarter and more autonomous.
  • A solid grasp of Information Technology and Embedded Systems is essential for a career in IoT.
  • IoT Architects play a crucial role in solving business problems through effective data management.
  • Organisations with IoT architects feel more prepared to meet their IoT requirements.
  • Career opportunities in IoT are expected to expand significantly as the sector grows.

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The term “Internet of Things” is on the verge for a few years now. Things are becoming smarter as well as autonomous than the way it was a few years ago. A keen understanding of Information Technology and Embedded Systems will gear you in your career in IoT. According to this report, IoT, the next Industrial Revolution will explode by the year 2020 as 24 billion IoT devices will be installed by the mentioned year. In this article, we list down 5 careers to explore in the field of IoT.

1| IoT Architect

About: An IoT Architect uses a massive amount of data which are collected from various sorts of gadgets in order to solve business problems. They are mainly responsible for the end-to-end architecture of IoT solutions. According to a report, 76% of respondents in organisations with an IoT architect feel that their organisations are prepared to address their IoT needs. Responsibilities: There are various responsibilities in this job role. An IoT Architect needs to drive and own the architecture as well as the design process, work with product management and software engineering team for translating the requirements to architecture, design, and implementations. Generate and manage reference architecture to preserve the knowledge in order to reuse it later when needed. They are also responsible for experiencing the design solutions for large scale deployments, experience with working in internet-related cloud technology development and also have the maturity to understand large systems and recommend upcoming technologies to solve complex business issues. Proficiency: To be an efficient IoT architect, you need to have proficiencies in the database such as SQL Server, MySQL, etc. SOA, EDA and other design patterns, hands-on experience to digital technologies and open source stacks, expertise in cloud computing architecture such as AWS, Azure, etc. The tech giant Wipro is providing such career exposure. Click here to apply.

2| IoT Solution Lead

About: The IoT Solution Lead helps the company to find solutions in order to achieve some targeted goals set by a company. They help to provide new services to their customers that are corresponding to the customer’s changing preferences. Responsibilities: The responsibilities of IoT Solution Lead include maximising the performance of the company’s distributed assets and networks while minimising the cost to serve. They are also responsible for driving new sources for the benefit of the organisation. Proficiency: The proficiencies needed for this career are such as experience with SQL and NO-SQL data solutions, cloud integration solutions (such as C2C, C2E, C2D) and security strategies across devices, data, applications and platform, experience in leading architecture, design and implementation across the full IoT stack of field device integration, communication, platform configuration, data ingestion and processing, data storage and retrieval, visualisation and enterprise integration. Experience with SQL and NO-SQL data solutions, cloud integration solutions (such as C2C, C2E, C2D) and security strategies across devices, data, applications, and platform. Wipro is providing such an opportunity where you can be part of this career. Click here to apply.

3| IoT Solution Architect

About: The Solution Architect in IoT brings various sets of skills together under the IoT ecosystem. They are the creative problem solver, comfortable with challenging the status quo and rapidly responding to escalated issues. Responsibilities: Your responsibilities include in-depth knowledge of the specified technological area. You are responsible for defining and documenting architecture, capturing as well as documenting non-functional requirements, provide technical leadership to project team to perform design to deployment-related activities, provide guidance, perform reviews, etc. Proficiency: The skills needed are direct experience implementing IoT services, demonstrated the ability to adapt to new technologies as well as learn new areas, designing highly available applications with responsibility for infrastructure robustness, The tech giants like Amazon, Cisco, and Wipro are providing an opportunity for such career. The links are given below. Click here to apply at Amazon. Click here to apply at Cisco. Click here to apply at Wipro.

4| Sr. IoT Product Managers

About: As a product manager, you will be the central resource for driving product strategy. You have to establish and enable a seamless experience with the product of IoT. Responsibilities: The responsibilities include understanding customer needs and driving the creation of products that satisfy those needs while bringing value to their company, he will make the contribution to product strategy, requirements definition, user experience design, technical architecture, and development collaboration, become a product subject matter expert on IoT Fleet Monitoring Cloud product and related technologies. Proficiency: Expert domain knowledge in supply chain and logistics, with strong hands-on experience with transportation management systems, ability to articulate the role of technologies such as IoT, data analytics, machine learning and AI in supply chain and logistics, in terms of customer value and impact on their business, employees, customers, and partners. 10+ years of technical product management experience on complex and technical software projects of significant scope. Multinational Computer Technolgy Corporation, Oracle is providing such a career. Click here to apply.

5| IoT Development Engineer

About: As an IoT Development Engineer, you will develop and execute platforms and software for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market. They understands how to deal with large-scale data generated by IoT and also knows how to deal with data integrity issues that will run during an IoT project. Responsibilities: The responsibilities include automate deployment and monitoring of the service to track down issues before our customers get affected, architect, design and optimise software, define intuitive web service APIs, drive development process improvements and establish best practices to ensure highest quality software. Proficiency: The proficiencies needed for this career are programming skills on C and Python, experience in L2 and L3 network development, hands-on experience in development of networking stack, understanding the real-time operating systems as well as knowledge in TCP/IP based network protocols. Tech giant Cisco is providing such an opportunity. Click here to apply.

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